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imprisonment

English

  1. 🔊 the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
  2. 🔊 putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
  3. 🔊 the state of being imprisoned
    “he was held in captivity until he died”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apresamiento imprisonment
  2. 🔊 aprisionamiento imprisonment
  3. 🔊 carcelazo imprisonment
  4. 🔊 encarcelamiento imprisonment
  5. 🔊 presidio imprisonment
  6. 🔊 reclusión imprisonment

Similar words

internment captivity incarceration immurement beleaguerment besetment blockade blockading captivity circumscription close arrest confinement cordoning custody detention dismemberment durance durance vile duress enclosure envelopment estrapade galleys hard labor